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10 bolt shaft break
- Thread starter Cricket
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89GMCSuburban
1/2 ton status
Ouch
what size tires did that? good thing im buyin a 60 
I bought this axle off a 1980 3/4 ton stock truck so I could get the 8 lug hubs for my swap. This was the reason the PO sold it.
Good demo of something that could happen on trail run. In order to get the inner shaft out past the knuckle I had to use a cut-off wheel on the joint ears.
Fun-fun for me, my 1st up close encounter pulling a busted axle apart.
Good demo of something that could happen on trail run. In order to get the inner shaft out past the knuckle I had to use a cut-off wheel on the joint ears.
Fun-fun for me, my 1st up close encounter pulling a busted axle apart.
so that explains why nobosy will buy my 10b shafts 
89GMCSuburban
1/2 ton status
You mess with that lower ball joint at all? Where'd you break it??
ur right they should, but nobody wants them 
and i know not everybody is goin to a 60
and i know not everybody is goin to a 60
3 on the tree
1/2 ton status
You are gonna have a BLast getting the nut off that lower ball joint!!jiminycricket said:
Once I got the shafts out the nut was easy to reach. All I need now is a wider pickle fork to pop the knuckles off. My tie rod fork is too skinny. I didn't mess with the ball joint and the break was at the u-joint ears - more of a shear.
Mike PM me your addy again and I'll send you the spicer lockouts.
All I need now is a wider pickle fork to pop the knuckles off. My tie rod fork is too skinny. I didn't mess with the ball joint and the break was at the u-joint ears - more of a shear.Mike PM me your addy again and I'll send you the spicer lockouts.
jays68yak
1/2 ton status
Why do you need to pull the knuckle if all your doing is converting another axle to 8 lug? Its the same knuckle.... 
Leper
1/2 ton status
My son did the same thing yesterday on the drivers side of his lockrite'd 10 bolt. Already had spares at the house.
az-k5
1/2 ton status
I think that break might, just maybe, have something to do with the original 1980's super dry, really rusty, hasn't seen grease in 10 years, u-joint. That is just a possibility.
PS D60's break too
PS D60's break too
dont tell me 60s break....blah blah blah i cant hear you blah blah
